About a fifth of the $10.1 million in grant money has yet to be committed to organizations because of a lack of qualified applicants.
Sam Kmack Tucson hasn’t been able to allocate all of the $10.1 million in federal relief money that was set aside to fund grants for local organizations, an initiative that was — in part — meant to bolster city efforts on issues such as housing and community safety.
But no local groups applied under three of the 14 grant categories — volunteer management, city trade and skill development, and transitional workforce — that represented a combined $350,000 of funding. Perez believes some community organizations didn’t apply because of staffing shortages, a national problem that she said has particularly rocked local programs that provide mental health services.
“We’re still working on that because we’re going through identifying those particular areas and what programs exist in the community as we go out and look at those possible partnerships,” she said. “We don’t have actual steps, in other words, other than we are exploring them to see if those are viable programs that we can partner with for these funds.”
Still, the ballooning of issues like homelessness and crime in Tucson make it apparent that officials need all the help they can get to combat those problems. The sooner the grant funds are awarded, the sooner the new organizations will be able to join the city’s existing efforts.
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